Why Wichita?

 

“Wichita sits near the crossroads of the nation’s sex-trafficking highway.

‘The pimps have routes they travel… and they include I-35 and I-70,’ – police Officer Kent Bauman of the Wichita-Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Child Unit.

Police have documented known pimps recruiting girls as young as 12 from Wichita and selling them for sex across the nation, Bauman said.

• Full Wichita Eagle article here.

 

In The Media

 

Nieman Reports (Harvard University)

• http://www.nieman.harvard.edu/reports/article/102627/A-Community-Watches-a-Story-Unfold.aspx

Wichita Eagle

• http://www.kansas.com/2011/06/10/1886028/freeze-mob-fights-child-sex-trafficking.html
• http://www.kansas.com/2011/12/26/2153506/midtown-wichita-center-for-homeless.html
• http://www.kansas.com/2011/12/26/2153181/storify-a-community-responds-to.html
• Compilation of articles: http://www.kansas.com/trafficking/

KPTS TV “Impact”

• http://watch.kpts.org/video/2008307592
• http://watch.kpts.org/video/2164360796

KAKE TV “This Week in Kansas”

• http://www.kake.com/thisweekinkansas

Halogen TV

• http://halogentv.com/articles/witchita-mom-starts-grassroots-movement-to-end-sex-trafficking/

KWCH TV

• http://www.kwch.com/news/kwch-rew-ict-sos-works-to-prevent-sex-trafficking-in-wichita-20111011,0,2142827.story

KFDI Radio

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3t7lwT93nY&feature=player_embedded

 

Project Videos

• Youth Resource Center: http://vimeo.com/36449989
• Riverfest Flash Mob: http://vimeo.com/24961327